MgtSor
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@mgtsorohan
B. Ed. & Hist; B. Sc. (Psy.); Ireland.
I thought I was autistic. I was wrong. I was 30 in 2019 when stories of women discovering they were autistic all along began appearing everywhere. They popularized a newer understanding of autism, with its own “female presentation.” It was framed as a scientific correction to a historical wrong against women, the kind of narrative the press finds irresistible. Like so many women, I felt immense relief when I was formally diagnosed. It offered an explanation for the mental health crises of my youth and the daily realities of my adult life. Then I spent a year in the online autism community. What I saw there, especially the way activists treated parents of severely impaired children, turned me into a critic of neurodiversity. But it was becoming a journalist in 2022, after discovering detransitioners’ stories, that forced me to question narratives about identity and diagnosis, including my own. Journalism also required the social skills autism says I should have lacked. From there, the rest unraveled: many traits I had come to associate with autism are not uncommon in the general population, but through the “female autism” framework, they looked like a meaningful pattern. I don’t think my story is unique. The same incentives that kept my diagnosis intact may also help explain why so many women are entering the autism category in adulthood. Read my first article for @thefp: thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-…
A Nigerian man living in London, charged with money laundering connected to an €800,000 fraud, had been flying to Dublin weekly to collect the dole, a court has heard jrnl.ie/7023676t
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In North America, one professor has been fired for condemning Hamas and standing with Israel after Oct 7. It was me. Not for misconduct. Not for poor teaching. Not for poor writing. Just for the “wrong” opinion. This is what academic freedom looks like in Canada today. But multiple professors who called Jews devil worshippers, celebrated Oct. 7, called Jews subhuman, posted images of Israel on fire and praised Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis? They were friends with the Vice Provost and dear friends with the "Human Rights Office." (Unofficially known as the office that does what management tells them) Investigated? No. Nothing. They were coddled, embraced and aided. Welcome to the radicalized University of Guelph-Humber. I'm not looking for money or fame. Just exposure. No paywall. The MSM won't touch this. A week ago, the National Post, after promising the story on this would run, went to legal and got cold feet. The cold sunlight of exposure is the only path to accountability. Methinks that the CBC won't touch it. Please reshare. Independent media is the only hope. It won't get me my job back, but it may cause senior academic management to pull back before they start attacking the next pro-Israel academic. It may cause radical Jew/Israel-hating unions like OPSEU to decide they want to represent all members, not just members who agree with their politics. It may let Jewish faculty and staff feel they don't need to hide their Jewish identity, and it may put the censorship thugs on their heels. It may cause a tiny baby step toward justice. There is hope. Read the story: paulfinlayson.substack.com/p/one-professo… #FreeSpeech #CancelCulture #AcademicFreedom @GuelphHumberUni @TheCarneyFiles @sheridancollege @HumberHWFair @IsraeliPM @Joshhasten @ArutzSheva_En
